Improvement in harness-pad plates



G. H. DENNIS.

Harness-Pad Plates. No.149 379 Patented Apri|7,1874.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEroE.

GEORGE H. DENNIS, OF MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT iN HARNESSPAD PLATES.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 149,379, dated April 7, 1874 application filed February 7, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, GEORGE H. DENNIS, of'

Monmouth, county of Warren and State of Illinois, have invented certain Improvements in Harness-Pad Plates,of which the following is a specification: v

The nature of my invention relates to improvements in harness-pad plates, and the invention consists, first, in constructing the pad-plates with grooves or recesses in their under sides deep enough to receive the terretnut, the pad-screw nut, and a thin metallic plate for securing them in position; and, secondly, in an improved method of fastening the water-hook and crupper-loop to the pad-plate, all as hereinafter fully described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a View of a harness-pad formed over my improved pad-plate. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical sectional view of the pad-plate. Fig.

3is a perspective view of the upper part of the pad-plate, showing the crupper-loop and watenhook in position; and Fig. 4L is a crosssection of- Fig. 3, on line :v

Referring to the parts by letters, letter A represents the-pad-plate, of cast-iron, malleableiron, or any other suitable material. B B are the terrets, and C C the nuts into which the terret-ShanksY are screwed to secure them in place. 1) Dare the pad-screws, or finishing-screws, and d d. the pad-screw nuts. E E

' are thin metallic plates, secured to the plate nuts c and l and plate E. H is the waterhook, and I the crupperloop, formed in one piece, as shown at Figs. 3 and 4, with a rect# angular hole, h, through their connectingplate h, which fits over a corresponding projection, h, from the upper and centralpart of the plate A. The plate It has a central groove across its under side, the shoulders at each side of which lit into corresponding rabbets a a in the edges of the upper part ofthe plate A. J is a screw-bolt, the shank of which passes through the plates h and A, and the head of which rests upon the leather on the upper side of the plate hf, holding it securely upon its seat on the plate A, the formation of which is such, as will be plainly seen, as will give the fullest strength to the connection of the plate h' to the plate A for the size of the parts where the connection is made-a connection, also, which will resist strain from any direction which may occur. The terret-nuts O being seated in the under side of the plate A will enable them to resist greater force sidewise against the terrets without being loosed from their fastenin gs, and will make them stronger in every respect. The nuts C and d and plates E should be of such thickness that when put in position the outer surface of the plate E will be flush With the surface of the plate A, and completely lill the upper part of the groove G, producing an even surface on the under side of the plate A. When the shank of the terret becomes broken in the nut O, as Will sometimes happen, or when it is necessary to replace one of the nuts C with a new one, access may be had to said nuts O by simply removing the tacking of the lower padding to what is usually known as the nutpieoe K, and drawing back the said padding slightly, and then turning the plate E around so as to uncover the desired nut 5 while in the ordinary construction, in order to get access to the nutsG, the nut-piece K must be released from the'plate A by cutting the rivets 7c k, which secure it thereto.

I claiml. The harness-pad plate A, having the grooves G G to receive the terret and padscrew nuts therein, said grooves covered by a thin metallic plate flush with the face or under side of the plate A, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In combination with the plate A, having the projection h and rabbets a a, the

combined water-hook and crupper-loop H I,

having the rectangular hole h and groove 7o', for connection, in the manner specified.

GEORGE H. DENNIS. Vitnesses:

J. H. PATTEE, THEO. STANsEURY. 

